Douglas Flores

On June 1, 2014, police in Houston, Texas arrested 18-year-old Douglas Flores and charged him with illegally possessing Alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug.

On June 4, 2014, Flores pled guilty in Harris County Criminal District Court to possession of a controlled substance. He was placed on probation for one year.

In October 2014, the Harris County District Attorney’s Conviction Review Unit was notified that lab tests performed on the tablets by the Houston Police crime laboratory were negative for the presence of any illegal drug.

The prosecution notified Flores’s defense attorney and joined the defense in a motion to vacate Flores’s conviction. On October 10, 2014, the motion was granted and the prosecution dismissed the charge.

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The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence.

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